coming off the top and goes into the Camel Clutch. So while it holds the match back from becoming something really truly special to me, it never loses that belligerent kind of feeling. In some way, it feels like the match takes a step back here after the natural evolution to mask tearing and some blood, but it still all feels nasty and desperate. Roll ups and big offense for the time, all of that. What we have is some great nearfall work. It’s as wonderful as the time it happened in and that the unfortunate video quality will allow, as it’s only here that tracking issues and some pauses crop up. He gets his revenge with mask tearing of his own, similarly by the eyehole, and adds in even more violence by throttling this shitbag against the post until he has blood dripping over the top of the very similar opening. The best part of the match is the transition from the second to third fall, as El Hijo Del Santo walks around and paces, and he’s already great enough a seller to convey adrenaline wearing off and the pain setting back in. Following a dive outside, he hits a back senton in the ring to even it up. It feels bigger than a wrestling match, for whatever reason, and it does so much for the entire production. I use the word desperate a lot in describing these lucha de apuestas matches, but it’s desperate on a different level than simply someone being embarrassed by getting shaved or beaten soundly in a gigantic match. Terms like “fired up” and “energetic” don’t really feel appropriate, it feels like a guy who has never been this mad before and he’s going nuts. It feels like the most disrespectful thing I’ve seen yet in lucha libre, and appropriately, Santito is set entirely the hell off, and it’s tremendous. It’s upsetting and while I’m sure it happened to his dad at some point, it’s the first time I’VE seen it. I don’t think it’s entirely a Dead Dad Bit, but it’s partially a Dead Dad Bit. I didn’t think I was attached to the mask at all, and yet, it just hit me weird in a way I really would not have expected. I have no attachment to this man at all, and yet because of the shadow he’ll grow to cast and the shadow his father casts, and the shadow that mask casts just as a piece of iconography, that visual feels incredibly wrong. I might have seen one of the Negro Casas matches at some point and I feel like I watched at least the 1996 three way, but I have virtually no memory of it. I’m going through it in my head because like that can’t actually be true. You can find results from around the world of wrestling at Fightful's results section.Prior to the last month or so (or whenever I watched that Santito/Blue Panther match from Japan), I’d never actually seen an El Hijo Del Santo match. * This is the fourth defense of the 49th champion.* Satoshi Kojima, Masato Tanaka & Daiki Inaba Naomichi Marufuji, Go Shiozaki & Takashi Sugiura vs. Ninja Mack, Daisuke Harada & Seiki Yoshioka vs. Kaito Kiyomiya, El Hijo del Santo, Ultimo Dragon & Alejandro KONGO (KENOH, Tadasuke, Hajime Ohara & Hi69) vs. KONGO (Katsuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Soya) vs. (Perros del Mal de Japon) NOSAWA Rongai, Eita & Super Crazy Yoshinari Ogawa, Yuya Susumu & Kai Fujimura vs. Tokyo, JAPAN- Due to the last-minute additions of El Hijo del Santo & Ultimo Dragon to this Friday’s card at Korakuen Hall event, the DEPARTURE 2022 card has been revised.
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